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CIMdata News ______2 Dr. Venkatash Agaram, CIMdata’s Director of Quality & Reliability Engineering, to be Featured in Upcoming Webinar on PLM as a Critical Enabler for M&A Success ______2 IBM Taking Cognitive Computing Mainstream (Commentary) ______3 Acquisitions ______6 Accenture Completes Acquisition of Australian Security Company Redcore ______6 IMAGINiT Technologies Acquires Autodesk Business from Eagle Point Software ______6 Synopsys to Expand Software Security Signoff Solution with Acquisition of Cigital and Codiscope ______7 Company News ______8 Altair Partners with the University of the Philippines to Nurture Next Generation of City Builders ______8 Applied Software Joins FenestraPro Global Reseller Network ______9 Arena Solutions Partners with 1factory to Create Holistic Design-To-Manufacture Quality Solution _____10 CGS Announces New CIO ______11 International TechneGroup (ITI) Announces Webinar for Successful Implementation of Model Based Enterprise (MBE) ______11 Maplesoft President and CEO Receives Honorary Doctorate from the University of Waterloo ______12 Siemens and Bentley Systems Advance Strategic Alliance Including Joint Investment Initiatives ______13 Tata Technologies Celebrates Manufacturing Month with Literacy, STEM Event for Detroit Students ____14 Tebis America Announces New Distributor in Mexico ______14 Unusual Tech Fashion Draws Crowd at World of Watson 2016 Event ______15 Vero Appoints Steve Youngs as Development Director ______15 Visual 2000 Announces Partnership with Mexcostura ______16 Events News ______17 CloudCities Provides Interactive 3D Conference Map for Autodesk University 2016 ______17 Leading Companies to Present on Global Deployments of Aras at PI Congress ______17 Mass Innovation Nights Announces Education Tech Event with Dassault Systemes ______18 PTC Announces LiveWorx® 2017; Call for Presenters Open Through November 28 ______18 Rand 3D Brings Comprehensive Suite of PLM Solutions to Product Innovation Congress 2016 ______19 Financial News ______19 ANSYS Reports Q3 2016 Financial Results ______19 L&T Infotech Posts Strong Growth in Revenue Driven by Digital Services ______20 Materialise Reports Third Quarter 2016 Results ______21 Implementation Investments ______21 Centric Software PLM Chosen by J.Lindeberg ______21 CFD Consultancy Signs Collaboration Agreement with Altair to Deploy HyperWorks for Geometry Pre- Processing ______22 Dassault Systèmes and ASE Group Announce Cooperation Agreement to Support Innovation Processes of Large Capital Infrastructure Projects ______23 PTC’s ThingWorx Application Enablement Platform Chosen by Vodafone for Rapid IoT Application Development ______24 Product News ______24 Atos Launches the First Quantum Computing Industry Program in Europe ______24

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Dr. Venkatash Agaram, CIMdata’s Director of Quality & Reliability Engineering, to be Featured in Upcoming Webinar on PLM as a Critical Enabler for M&A Success 10 November 2016 CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Dr. Venkatash Agaram, Director of Quality & Reliability Engineering, will take part in a webinar to discuss ways PLM can be used as a critical enabler for M&A success. In this webcast, “PLM: Critical Enabler for M&A Success,” Dr. Agaram will speak about the best practices and strategies that can help bring about more efficiencies in M&A activities. The webinar will also share valuable insights and live examples on the specific PLM system integration tasks that are available for achieving a seamless merger. The webinar, which is hosted by Wipro, will take place on Wednesday, December 7, 2016 at 10:00 am EST. To register, visit http://bit.ly/2g0GpjA. About CIMdata CIMdata, a leading independent worldwide firm, provides strategic management consulting to maximize an enterprise’s ability to design and deliver innovative products and services through the application of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions. Since its founding in 1983, CIMdata has delivered world-class knowledge, expertise, and best-practice methods on PLM solutions. These solutions incorporate both business processes and a wide-ranging set of PLM-enabling technologies. CIMdata works with both industrial organizations and providers of technologies and services seeking competitive advantage in the global economy. In addition to consulting, CIMdata conducts research, provides PLM-focused subscription services, and produces several commercial publications. The company also provides industry education through PLM certificate programs, seminars, and conferences worldwide. CIMdata serves clients around the world from offices in North America, Europe, and Asia- Pacific. To learn more about CIMdata’s services, visit our website at www.CIMdata.com, follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/CIMdataPLMNews, or contact CIMdata at: 3909 Research Park Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA, Tel: +1 734.668.9922. Fax: +1 734.668.1957; or at Oogststraat 20, 6004 CV Weert, The Netherlands, Tel: +31 (0) 495.533.666.

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IBM Taking Cognitive Computing Mainstream (Commentary) 8 November 2016 Key takeaways:  IBM has bet their company on cognitive computing which includes Watson technology, the Internet of Things (IoT), analytics and professional services, and the cloud  Based on attendance at the recent World of Watson event, the market is listening and responding  Companies in a range of industries are starting to see real benefits from applying IBM’s technology stack to their business problems In 2011, Watson, a cognitive solution developed by IBM researchers, shocked many people by winning a Jeopardy competition against top human challengers. Industry veterans were also surprised in 2014 when IBM announced the creation of an IBM Watson business unit, backed with a $1 billion commitment.1 The company then doubled down on their investments in cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT) by forming an IoT business unit in 2015.2 The company has transformed itself twice in the last thirty years, from a hardware company to a software and services company. Now, according to Ms. Ginni Rometty, IBM’s CEO, “IBM is a cognitive solutions and cloud platform company, and everything we do is focused on that.” The sessions at October’s event were designed to make just that case. On October 23-27, 2016 IBM convened the World of Watson event in Las Vegas, NV, drawing over 17,000 attendees from IBM, partners, customers, prospects, press and analysts. If the year-on-year attendee growth is any indication (last year’s event drew 1,000, by comparison), many are joining IBM on their cognitive computing journey. Over the last several years, the IT market has focused on broad trends like social, mobile, big data and analytics, and cloud, often abbreviated SMAC. Other IT companies add IoT to this SMAC mix. Today the term digitalization (or “digital transformation”) is used to describe how businesses must transform to leverage SMAC and IoT to better engage with their customers, leverage their supply chains, and reach their business objectives. While big data and analytics are part of this vision, and IBM has great traditional strengths there, the company is now going beyond just analytics to support transformations to cognitive businesses, uniting digital business with digital intelligence—creating knowledge from data— to expand everyone’s expertise, continuously learning and adapting to, hopefully, outthink the needs of the market. The core of that digital intelligence is Watson, an information omnivore that can digest huge volumes of text, audio, video, and other structured and unstructured data to become an expert on a given topic. Business can access this expertise using APIs, and increasingly through IBM-formulated applications. A major one is Watson Virtual Agent, a new capability announced during the event.3 This technology could replace those annoying bots that cannot understand simple queries with something like Otto, a live customer service application developed by Autodesk using Watson. According to Mr. Gregg Spratto, VP of Operations for Autodesk, they are handling more than a million customer cases per year (and

1 https://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/42867.wss 2 http://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-forms-internet-of-things-unit-names-general-manager/ 3 http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/50841.wss

Page 3 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary growing), and cannot scale using their current approached. Otto, based on IBM’s Watson Conversation service, helps supplement their human team and will not be positioned as a human. Today Otto with Watson is handling over 50% of the inquiries on its own without interaction from a human. Mr. Spratto maintained that people do not need to talk to a human; they need to be understood in a way that minimizes their “total time to get an answer.” Anyone who has spent time navigating phone trees and listening to hold music can vouch for the sensibility of this user satisfaction measure. Watson’s conversational capabilities are highlighted in recent TV ads and it will be interesting to see how these adapt to handle sometimes-irate software customer queries. Watson has been trained to support Autodesk’s plans for Otto, and is continuing to be refined as they continue to expand their focus and use cases. CIMdata looks forward to learning more about this innovative application. A common thread across many of the presentations was an emphasis on how Watson will not replace humans, per se, but will augment them and their capabilities. For example, a recent 60 Minutes segment was cited that highlighted Watson as applied to oncology, one of its earliest targets. Watson ingested about 1,000 patient histories. Watson agreed with the actions previously taken by the attending physicians 99% of the time, which is encouraging. Interestingly, in another 30% of cases, Watson suggested useful actions not identified by the human physicians.4 It is this promise that companies see and want to apply to their businesses. IBM is responding with role-based Watson applications in marketing, commerce, supply chain, and chief technical officer (CTO). One demonstration showed how Watson helped select and deploy Web- based commerce content. In the presentation, the analyst had a conversation with Watson, asking for images for cycling accessories and suggestions of appropriate taglines for use online. The conversation then turned to special offers for regions likely to face bad weather in the coming months. Watson queried Weather.com data (an IBM company) in real-time, presenting a map of the regions that would face bad weather, and offered images and taglines of rain gear and other accessories appropriate for those conditions. There are other innovative directions Watson is heading to improve collaborative business processes. Ricoh will soon offer a 4K touchscreen display with the IBM Watson IoT platform built in to transcribe meeting conversations, capture drawn content, and track action items, among other skills. IBM also has a partnership with Cisco that will leverage Watson in Cisco real-time collaboration and meeting technologies in a combined solution with IBM Verse and Social. The star-studded agenda included Ms. Mary Barra, GM’s CEO; Mr. Stewart Butterfield, CEO of Slack (a hot workplace collaboration company who announced a partnership with IBM at the event5); Mr. John B. King Jr., U.S. Secretary of Education; and authors Mr. Geoffrey Moore and Mr. Thomas Friedman. Mr. Friedman’s talk drew heavily from his new book, Thank You for Being Late. Mr. Friedman claims that 2007 will go down in history as a major inflection point due to three exponential changes: the Market (globalization), Mother Nature (climate change and biodiversity loss), and Moore’s Law (technology). According to his book, digital globalization started to take off around that year; humanity’s effects on the planet, and hence Mother Nature’s impact, accelerated in that year; and finally, many significant technological events happened in 2007. 2007 marked the introductions of Hadoop, the iPhone, Android, Airbnb, and Watson. Also of note, Twitter arrived in 2006 and Facebook expanded beyond universities in the same year. He also included Google buying YouTube in that list,

4 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/artificial-intelligence-making-a-difference-in-cancer-care/ 5 http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/50844.wss

Page 4 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary making 2007, in his estimation, the largest inflection point since Gutenberg—that, also according to Mr. Friedman, will probably be missed because of the 2008 financial crisis. One can argue about the specifics, but Mr. Friedman rightfully believes we will have to reimagine politics, geopolitics, the workplace, notions of community, and ethics in light of the changes we face, which is where Watson could fit in. Given recent events, we can see many examples in politics to support these beliefs, both here and aboard. If Watson and other augmenting technologies continue to evolve and get deployed, just the few examples shown at the conference illustrate how much work might change, with big data and analytics at your fingertips and Watson guiding you about how to best interpret them and react. What about applications in product development and manufacturing? For a number of years CIMdata has tracked the parts of IBM that fit within our definition of the PLM market, including Global Business Services (implementing and supporting PLM-enabling solutions), IBM Rational (requirements management and software development), Maximo (enterprise asset management), and FileNet (enterprise content management). With IBM’s new focus on cloud, IoT, and cognitive applications, it can be difficult to find these applications at such events as World of Watson. CIMdata can report they are alive and well, and continuing with their previous missions, while also supporting the new cognitive vision. IBM is investigating applying Watson to product development, and are using IBM Watson IoT for predictive maintenance applications at a few clients.6 If Watson can triage maintenance actions using existing content, video, and other knowledge, it could be a powerful adjunct to existing operations. The IBM Rational team is still focused on their continuous engineering mission, and will soon announce some moves in that regard to support product development use cases more typical of those offered by broad-based PLM solution providers. In conclusion, IBM is making significant progress in their third evolution from a software and services company to a cognitive solutions and cloud company. They are folding their many cloud acquisitions under their Bluemix banner, and making inroads on re-architecting their Bluemix offerings for the cloud. The main stage sessions were more about the intent of leading companies to evolve their cognitive operations versus results, but there were some great early successes. During the sessions, one IBM executive commented that perhaps IBM got “too far out over their skis” with their leap into Watson. For ski jumpers this can be catastrophic, but IBM seems to have compensated for their early entry by doing what they do well: building ecosystems, supporting open source and key standards, and driving interest and usage of their solutions through academia, Hackathons, and other means. Based on the attendance, results, and excitement at the World of Watson, this work is starting to pay off. These early applications will be key. If they can reach their promise, they will be just the first wave to transform to a “World with Watson,” as Ms. Rometty described. If she is correct, it will not just be IBM transforming again, it will be the rest of us adjusting to living in a World with Watson. About CIMdata CIMdata, an independent worldwide firm, provides strategic management consulting to maximize an enterprise’s ability to design and deliver innovative products and services through the application of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). CIMdata provides world-class knowledge, expertise, and best- practice methods on PLM. CIMdata also offers research, subscription services, publications, and education through international conferences. To learn more about CIMdata’s services, visit our website at http://www.CIMdata.com or contact CIMdata at: 3909 Research Park Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48108,

6IBM Watson Analytics for Chemicals and Petroleum, http://tinyurl.com/zs44m3c

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Accenture Completes Acquisition of Australian Security Company Redcore 2 November 2016 Accenture has completed its acquisition of Redcore, a privately held Australia-based consulting company that specialises in providing identity and access management services (IAM), as well as security services for cloud, network management, public key infrastructure, cyber defence, applications and the Internet of Things. The acquisition, first announced on August 22, 2016, enhances Accenture’s existing IAM services and security as-a-service capabilities and extends the company’s other critical cyber defence services in the Asia-Pacific region.

“In addition to a proven track record of providing cyber defence application security and Internet of Things security services, Redcore’s seasoned security practitioners bring exceptional industry knowledge to Accenture. Our combined capabilities will enable us to serve our clients even better and deliver more innovative solutions tailored to their unique business needs,” said Kelly Bissell, managing director, Accenture Security. “We continue to build great momentum as a global leader in security and I am delighted to continue this journey with Redcore in the Asia-Pacific region.”

Redcore provides security services and IT service management for a wide range of clients in the telecommunications, retail and finance industries, as well as government agencies. Founded in 2010, Redcore has multiple offices in Australia, India, New Zealand, the Philippines and Singapore and has approximately 130 security professionals.

“As the market conditions for cybersecurity continue to evolve, we are very proud to integrate with Accenture,” said Joseph Failla, Co-Founder, Redcore. “Through joining forces, our combined Redcore and Accenture Security team can tap into a pool of unique resources and be optimally placed to address and overcome the pressing cybersecurity challenges facing our clients within the Asia-Pacific market.” Click here to return to Contents

IMAGINiT Technologies Acquires Autodesk Business from Eagle Point Software 7 November 2016 Rand Worldwide announces that its IMAGINiT Technologies division has acquired the Autodesk subscription customer base of Eagle Point Software. As of today, IMAGINiT, an Autodesk Platinum Partner, welcomes all former Eagle Point Autodesk subscription customers, providing them with access to IMAGiNiT’s wealth of Autodesk implementation, consulting and training expertise. “As a result of Eagle Point’s decision to focus more completely on growing their Pinnacle Series business, a unique opportunity arose to grow our base of subscriptions,” says Larry Rychlak, president and CEO, IMAGINiT Technologies. “We are pleased to now welcome Eagle Point’s customers who

Page 6 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary utilize the Autodesk products to our family. Our team will make sure that these customers continue to receive the outstanding service that they have received from Eagle Point in the past and to ensure a smooth transition to the IMAGINiT family. As IMAGINiT customers, they can look forward to enjoying the unique benefits offered by us including access to free installation support, free IMAGINiT Utilities, and the support of our expansive team of technical experts across the North American Autodesk channel.” “As we further our commitment to our award winning, personalized learning and productivity solution, Pinnacle Series, our dedication to our Autodesk customers drove us to find the unique Autodesk partner who has both the ability and geographical coverage to take over management of our customers’ Autodesk subscriptions,” says John Biver, president and CEO, Eagle Point Software. “IMAGINiT Technologies was the exact right choice. Now, our vision of expanding the Pinnacle Series features will help customers improve their efficiency, quality and learning at an accelerated pace. Over the coming 12 months, Pinnacle Series customers will experience dramatic gains in workforce performance, technology adoption and return on Autodesk subscription investments.” As an Autodesk Platinum Partner with offices across North America, IMAGINiT provides subscribers with extensive benefits while still giving customers regional resources. Technical experts in architecture, engineering, construction and manufacturing provide software recommendation, implementation and consulting as well as contributing industry leading insights to IMAGINiT’s ProductivityNOW knowledge base for subscribers to access and benefit from. Subscribers can also download complimentary time saving productivity Utilities for Autodesk Revit, Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D and Autodesk Vault Client via the ProductivityNOW portal. New IMAGINiT customers will be invited to attend a series of webcasts welcoming them to IMAGINiT, explaining the changes and detailing the benefits of subscribing to Autodesk with IMAGINiT. Click here to return to Contents

Synopsys to Expand Software Security Signoff Solution with Acquisition of Cigital and Codiscope 7 November 2016 Synopsys, Inc. has signed definitive agreements to acquire Cigital, a privately held provider of software security managed and professional services, and Codiscope, a 2015 spinoff of Cigital and provider of complementary security tools. Cigital is a large, global application security firm specializing in professional and managed services for identifying, remediating and preventing vulnerabilities in software applications. Codiscope has transformed the tools and intellectual property created by Cigital into a suite of accessible and streamlined tools for a broad population of developers. The security of software code throughout the software supply chain is a critical concern for companies across a broad range of industries, from financial services and medical devices to industrial controls and automotive. As the cyber security landscape becomes increasingly complex, many organizations are struggling to determine the right solution in the context of a multitude of point tool offerings and varying vendor strategies, as well as their own IT challenges and priorities. The acquisition of Cigital and Codiscope will add complementary products, services, and a highly skilled workforce to the Synopsys portfolio, enabling Synopsys to offer a comprehensive software security signoff solution. "Synopsys, Cigital and Codiscope have a shared vision of building security into the software development lifecycle and across the cyber supply chain," said Andreas Kuehlmann, senior vice

Page 7 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary president and general manager of the Synopsys Software Integrity Group. "Cigital's consultants are instrumental in guiding organizations from the earliest stages of security readiness and system maturity, which will provide an impactful addition to Synopsys' current product-based offering. Codiscope's developer-focused tools and training modules are important in empowering developers to prioritize security. Together we will be able to provide our customers with a state-of-the-art software security platform." "Coupling the managed services and professional services of Cigital with the product strengths of Synopsys really creates something very remarkable: the first true end-to-end provider for software security," said John Wyatt, Cigital chief executive officer. "We are excited about joining an organization that shares Cigital's vision of securing the software that is at the heart of every organization by Building Security In. The shared vision of the two companies will provide Cigital the opportunity to accelerate our growth while continuing to deliver consistent, quality services to our clients." "Codiscope's mission of improving the quality of software by creating tools that help developers build and deploy secure code faster is a natural fit in the Synopsys vision of Software Integrity," said Gary Jackson, Codiscope Chief Executive Officer. "Addressing security at the developer level drives developer productivity, reduces remediation time, and promotes the education of security skills. As the velocity of development increases, security belongs in development, and Codiscope will provide Synopsys critical tools to lead the industry." The terms of the deal are not being disclosed. The transaction, which will be funded with a combination of U.S. cash and debt, is subject to Hart Scott Rodino regulatory review and other customary closing conditions, and is expected to close by December 2016. While Synopsys has not yet provided financial guidance for fiscal 2017, our preliminary review indicates that the acquisition is expected to be modestly dilutive to 2017 non-GAAP earnings per share, and is expected to reach breakeven on a non-GAAP basis by the second half of 2018. Click here to return to Contents Company News

Altair Partners with the University of the Philippines to Nurture Next Generation of City Builders 7 November 2016 Altair and The University of the Philippines have teamed to promote the development of next generation architects through the use of cutting edge simulation technologies in teaching, training and design projects. As part of this collaboration, Altair is providing free licences for its computer-aided engineering and design solutions software HyperWorks® and solidThinking®, to the Architecture Faculty of the University of the Philippines to be used in the University's first-of-its-kind Design Lab. The Altair design and simulation software and applications will serve as the backbone of the faculty's new Design Labwhich will serve as a platform for undergraduate and postgraduate students to leverage on technologies to study new ideas that will improve the quality of lives in a highly urbanised environment especially in the design of disaster-resilient structures (houses, schools and evacuation centers, a common problem facing developing Asian cities, including The Philippines. Altair Managing Director for ASEAN, Srirangam Srirangarajan, explained, "Today's architects play a

Page 8 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary key role in designing sustainable living solutions to address 21st century issues such as climate change and clean energy requirements. Emerging technologies such as simulation software and optimisation techniques help architects solve complex designs and infrastructural problems, allowing them to develop impactful buildings and city designs, push new design frontiers and provide them with the right tools to create optimized and sustainable design solutions that will ultimately improve the lives of the people of The Philippines." "Given Altair's pioneering expertise and knowledge in simulation technologies, we look forward to sharing our industry know-how with the University of the Philippines and helping them set new benchmarks in architectural education, in support of the University's goals to nurture more 'industry- ready' young architects," Srirangam added. Commenting on the partnership with Altair, the Dean of the UP College of Architecture – Professor Mary Ann A. Espina said, "In support of the nation's vision to build more sustainable and liveable homes, we are delighted to partner with Altair in the Design Lab project. The University of the Philippines is one of the early adopters of the technology innovation in the academia space, I am confident that with this partnership we will be able to nurture more future architects who will continue to push boundaries to develop quality and sustainable cities that meet future urbanization, energy and mobility needs." At the moment, the University will be exploring the possibilities of using the HyperWorks® and solidThinking products in its science research project – the Build Back Better Program. The project's scope covers designing disaster-resilient houses, schools and evacuation centers, and the software by Altair is believed to contribute significantly in developing creative and high-quality designs for the said projects. The collaboration with the University of Philippines is one of several initiatives carried out by Altair to promote design and product innovation amongst businesses and education institutions in the region. Other areas of focus include joint research programs and training platforms to support design innovation. Click here to return to Contents

Applied Software Joins FenestraPro Global Reseller Network 9 November 2016 Applied Software® announced today it has joined the FenestraPro global reseller network and will sell, train and support FenestraPro. Facade performance software that is an add-in to Autodesk Revit, FenestraPro helps architects design more energy-efficient buildings. "By giving the architect aesthetic control while also improving the design process by eliminating costly late-stage redesign fees, FenestraPro can help optimize facade design for better building performance," said Richard Burroughs, president of Applied Software. "The solution fits extremely well within our expansive portfolio of Autodesk products. We're excited to help bring FenestraPro to a wider audience through our sales coverage, training and support." "We're pleased to add Applied Software to our growing reseller network," said Simon Whelan, COO of FenestraPro. "Applied's commitment to superior service and expertise in Building Information Modeling, combined with their being an Autodesk Platinum Reseller and Autodesk Reseller of the Year, makes this a great partnership for us."

Page 9 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary FenestraPro furthers the ability to design more sustainable buildings while also reducing the time spent redesigning to meet ever increasing performance requirements. The latest version of FenestraPro offers real-time performance indicators that demonstrate the impact of design decisions throughout. This reduces the need for design iteration, improving the design process while enabling cost benefits. Click here to return to Contents

Arena Solutions Partners with 1factory to Create Holistic Design-To-Manufacture Quality Solution 8 November 2016 Arena Solutions today announced a partnership with 1factory to provide OEMs with complete visibility of product quality from initial design through the quality control processes on their factory floors and across their supply chain. With this partnership, customers have an end-to-end quality control solution capable of identifying non-conformance to specifications early in the design/manufacture process and can accelerate the necessary corrective actions. 1factory’s cloud-based platform enables OEMs to employ a single quality inspection testing system for all parts and assemblies throughout the extended supply chain. The 1factory platform simplifies inspection and test planning, digitizes production floor measurement data, enables traceability (by batch, lot, serial number, operator, inspection equipment, etc.), and delivers real-time analysis to help prevent defects and improve processes. The integrated solution connects product information in Arena with quality control data in 1factory. With the integration, inspection plans in 1factory are revised in sync with engineering changes in Arena. Associated documents such as drawings, work instructions, and inspection procedures, created and controlled within Arena, can be accessed directly from 1factory. When parts or assemblies fail inspection or test, a quality inspector can create an Arena quality object - a non-conformance material report (NCMR), supplier corrective action (SCAR), or if sufficiently serious, a corrective action preventative action (CAPA) - directly from within 1factory. The 1factory integration with Arena provides a comprehensive quality assurance solution for OEMs and their supply chain partners. Together, the OEM and the supplier can identify quality issues, collaborate on resolutions and document the action plan from within a single quality process. Engineering teams have complete visibility with links between components and suppliers for all quality issues as they assess the part for future product inclusion. Impacted teams will be able to proactively analyze products returned from the field against the component’s design specifications and factory inspection data, driving a closed-loop quality process from manufacturing, to field repair, to the engineering team, in order to optimize product manufacturing quality and reduce field repair costs. “I am excited that we’ve connected manufacturing quality processes at suppliers directly to the OEM’s quality, manufacturing, and engineering teams” said Steve Chalgren, executive vice president of product management and chief strategy officer at Arena. “Too often, the quality inspection results significantly lag the actual production process, making it extremely difficult for engineering teams to undertake proactive analysis. Now they can.” “At 1factory, we’re focused on helping our customers ensure quality at source,” said Nipun Girotra, president at 1factory. “Combined with Arena, our customers now have complete visibility of all parts from design through manufacturing. Creating a comprehensive profile of parts and suppliers, related inspection plans, and inspection results provides more informed purchasing and design decisions early in the process.”

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CGS Announces New CIO 10 November 2016 CGS announced today that it named John Samuel as the company's senior vice president, global chief information officer. Samuel will lead CGS's technology operations, and will be responsible for shaping the IT strategy and aligning it with the company's vision, products and offerings. Samuel brings more than 20 years of progressive technology operations experience in overseeing global technology, security and infrastructure. He has worked with senior leadership to provide guidance and management for IT infrastructure, operations data centers, cloud, global network and telephone and contact center support around the world. "As our footprint continues to expand across the globe, it is critical to have an innovative technology leader to help us shape and advance our IT operations," said CGS President and CEO Phil Friedman. "John's experience is ideal to answer evolving technology demands and enable dynamic growth throughout our markets worldwide." Prior to joining CGS, Samuel served as senior vice president, data strategy, IT and operations infrastructure at Fareportal Inc., a global online travel agency. In this role, he managed the global shared services serving IT, telephony and innovation, workforce management, real-time mission control for contact centers, data science and data strategy. "Technology is evolving and helping companies change the way they do business," said Samuel. "I'm thrilled to join the team at CGS and I look forward to leveraging my experience with IT, security and infrastructure to help the company continue to grow and innovate globally." Click here to return to Contents International TechneGroup (ITI) Announces Webinar for Successful Implementation of Model Based Enterprise (MBE) 8 November 2016 International TechneGroup Incorporated (ITI) announces a new webinar, “Reducing Design Change and Labor Costs in the MBE Lifecycle.” The adoption of 3D Model Based Definition (MBD), PLM, and digital manufacturing technologies requires an unprecedented level of 3D product data precision and accuracy. Therefore, engineering and manufacturing leaders must focus on minimizing the re-creation of 3D product data. When downstream production planning, validation, simulation, or manufacturing teams are reluctant to trust - or are unable to use - supplied 3D data, some may choose to re-create the released model. Unauthorized or unintended design changes cause wasted labor and production issues that can be both unnecessarily costly and avoidable. Identifying the gaps earlier in the manufacturing process by using real-time methods and proven interoperability solutions for finding, documenting, correcting and communicating changes to 3D production data across the digital enterprise, help to reduce these changes and, thus, drive successful implementations of MBE. The webinar is derived from ITI’s recent white paper written by James Flerlage, ITI EVP Global Business Development. Flerlage delivers on ITI research of engineering change and how it effects the

Page 11 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary cost of labor in businesses as they implement MBE. “Production pressures drive shop floor behavior; if 3D MBD models aren’t usable in downstream processes, knowledge workers and suppliers are likely to re-design or re-work the models,” states Flerlage. “It’s a situation that often leads to unidentified and/or undocumented changes, increases in labor costs, and in some cases, product quality issues. This webinar coalesces years of ITI project experience and technical expertise into useful insights for addressing what has become a major gap in MBE implementations.” In the webinar, Flerlage will offer five insights for engineering and manufacturing groups implementing MBE.  Examining processes and user actions that may prevent downstream reuse of 3D models  Measuring and documenting manufacturing labor costs due to changes in MBD models  Evaluating partner and supply chain workflows and processes for potential MBD data quality issues  Implementing automated methods for identifying upstream and downstream MBD model changes  Closing the feedback loop by using an instant, automated approach for documenting and communicating change The 30 minute session will be held Wednesday, November 16th, at 1:00 p.m., Eastern. Register for the free webinar by clicking here. Space is limited. Click here to return to Contents

Maplesoft President and CEO Receives Honorary Doctorate from the University of Waterloo 8 November 2016 Maplesoft announced that James (Jim) Cooper, its president and CEO, has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo (UW). The University presented Cooper with a Doctor of Engineering degree at a recent graduation ceremony held at the university. Cooper was recognized for his business and engineering leadership. “Mr. Cooper has dedicated his career to improving the quality of university education and research through the development of software to perform symbolic mathematical calculations and engineering analyses and through continued support for our students, and our institution as a whole,” said Pearl Sullivan, Dean of Engineering at the University of Waterloo. “We have worked closely with Jim for many years and he embodies the hard work, dedication and values that we align ourselves with at the University of Waterloo. We are proud to present him with this honorary degree.” Addressing the new graduates at the University of Waterloo, Cooper urged them to use their abilities to drive real innovation and progress, making technology act as a full partner in finding new, novel solutions to problems. “Make technology act as a full partner … make it what it promised to be, a helper, an advocate, an intelligence to glean with, and not an adversary for your attention”. He asked them to use their abilities to “clear a path to better” and reminded them of the importance of surrounding themselves with people who will motivate and energize them in this world of endless online distractions. “Remember, travelling far is better than travelling fast. So, climb into your flying car, built for two or more and travel far…”

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Siemens and Bentley Systems Advance Strategic Alliance Including Joint Investment Initiatives 10 November 2016 Siemens and Bentley Systems announced today that they have formalized a strategic alliance agreement to drive new business value by accelerating digitalization to advance infrastructure project delivery and asset performance in complementary business areas. Siemens and Bentley Systems will initially invest at least Euro 50 million in developing joint solutions to enlarge their respective offerings for infrastructure and industry to the benefit of the end-customers. This work will uniquely leverage new cloud services for a connected data environment to converge respective digital engineering models from both companies. In addition to those elements of the agreement, approximately Euro 70 million of secondary shares of Bentley's common stock have been acquired by Siemens, under a company program that will continue until such time as Bentley Systems' stock is publicly traded. Siemens and Bentley Systems have a track record of complementing their respective portfolios through the licensing of each other's technology to provide solutions in the Digital Factory and Process Industries & Drives divisions, where respective software offerings have already been integrated. For example, Bentley's reality modeling software has been integrated into Siemens Process Simulate to leverage laser-scanned point clouds in modeling the existing context of brownfield industrial environments. The automotive industry manufacturer Turnkey Manufacturing Systems (TMS) successfully employed the innovative point cloud capabilities to create a "digital twin" of their production line to significantly enhance their planning and validation processes, while saving time and costs. The new investment initiatives will involve virtually all Siemens divisions. The major benefit will be accumulating intelligence from Siemens solutions throughout Bentley's complementary applications for design modeling, analytical modeling, construction modeling and asset performance modeling. As a result, the integrated and accessible digital engineering models, such as the "digital twin" viewed through an immersive 3D interface, will enable unprecedented operational performance, visibility and reliability. This work will uniquely converge digital engineering models: physical engineering models in their 3D physical reality context by way of Bentley's software solutions and the corresponding functional engineering 2D models within Siemens' solutions. Siemens and Bentley Systems have identified opportunities to work together in Energy Management, Power Generation, Building Technology and Mobility where each company can leverage their respective technology and industry expertise to bring new business value to the market. For example, Bentley's applications for the 3D modeling and structural analysis of industrial and infrastructure assets, complement Siemens' solutions and unparalleled domain expertise in electrification and automation. Siemens and Bentley Systems will each provide software from the other to deliver complete solutions from either company to the benefit of their respective customers in order to improve their project and asset performance through simulation and virtual commissioning. Development work will benefit from and extend Siemens' and Bentley Systems' established commitments to openness and interoperability. Klaus Helmrich, member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG said: "This move further extends our industry software ecosystem from 2D to 3D software solutions, taking the simulation portfolio in our Digital Enterprise offering to a new dimension. We're rigorously executing our 'digital twin' vision from virtual planning to the real product to the benefit of our customers who themselves are driving

Page 13 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary digitalization across their value chains. Bentley Systems' independence, track record in interoperability, and leadership in engineering- and design- software make them our ideal partner for this undertaking." Bentley Systems CEO Greg Bentley said, "Only with Siemens could we so purposefully advance beyond merely linking the 'Industrial Internet of Things', to ultimately leverage digital engineering models for visual operations and connected infrastructure asset performance. Given our long history of sharing complementary technologies, we are very excited to now contribute so broadly to Siemens' industrial digitalization leadership." Click here to return to Contents

Tata Technologies Celebrates Manufacturing Month with Literacy, STEM Event for Detroit Students 1 November 2016 Tata Technologies, in partnership with Athletes for Charity and the Detroit Lions, celebrated “Manufacturing Month” at Mark Twain School for Scholars to encourage interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers. Throughout the day, approximately 300 students from kindergarten to eighth grade were introduced to STEM in a “Literacy Zone,” each receiving a book to keep through a book distribution drive. The event also featured various hands-on science and manufacturing activities in the “STEM Zone,” presented by Tata Technologies, Athletes for Charity, Wayne State University’s School of Medicine, College of Engineering and Chemistry Department. Professionals from Dassault Systèmes, and Ford Motor Company helped motivate the students and promote manufacturing careers. Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXCITE’s “Your Product Here” and “Reality Generator” augmented reality apps (available for download) were a huge hit with the kids. Brandon Copeland, defensive end for the Detroit Lions, served as the school’s Principal for the day. “Science, technology, engineering and mathematics are critical in driving innovation, yet there is a shortage of skilled workers in STEM-related fields because students are not pursuing degrees and careers within the sector,” said Kyle Heythaler, head of Tata Technologies’ North American corporate sustainability program. “At Tata Technologies, we are deeply invested in our community and our youth, and take advantage of opportunities to promote literacy and STEM education in a way that’s fun and engaging for both the kids and volunteers.” Click here to return to Contents

Tebis America Announces New Distributor in Mexico 4 November 2016 Tebis America, a software company specializing in CAD/CAM systems for design and manufacturing— servicing the tool, die, mold, aerospace and automotive manufacturing industries, has announced the appointment of Software y Aplicaciones CNC, S.A. de C.V. as a distributor in Mexico. The announcement was made by David Klotz, Tebis America CEO and President. According to Klotz, “The appointment of a distributor in Mexico is another step in our continued growth plan. Mexico is rich in manufacturing and Software y Aplicaciones will provide customers and prospects in the area with hands-on sales and service in a timely fashion.” The new distributor will work closely with Alejandro Rudolfo Arjona Knorr, Tebis Latin America

Page 14 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Regional Sales Manager. Arjona said, “The team at Software y Aplicaciones has the experience and is well versed in CAD/CAM software and we welcome them to our team.” Software y Aplicaciones CNC, S.A. de C.V. is located in Zapopan Mexico. The company has many years’ experience in CAD/CAM for different manufacturing areas such as mold & die, power generation, and medical. Click here to return to Contents

Unusual Tech Fashion Draws Crowd at World of Watson 2016 Event 7 November 2016 inno360, an open innovation collaborative platform and Watson partner, was recently displayed for IBM's World of Watson 2016 conference attendees Oct. 24-27, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Fashion designer Marchesa's data-driven "cognitive dress," a testament to the creative power of cognitive computing and the partnership between IBM Watson and inno360, was prominently displayed as part of the event. The dress was first unveiled May 2 at the 2016 Met Gala in New York City where it changed colors based on an analysis of fan sentiment in real time. Ann Rubin, IBM vice president, branded content and global creative, stated on the IBM "Think" blog, "The dress' cognitive creation relies on a mix of Watson APIs, cognitive tools from IBM Research, solutions from Watson developer partner inno360 and the creative vision from the Marchesa design team." Spencer Trask Collaborative Innovations was founded by Spencer Trask & Co., a privately held advanced technology development company, in partnership with several well-known business leaders, to bring open innovation ventures to market. "Under the combined leadership of inno360 Chairman Michael Turillo and Spencer Trask Collaborative Innovations Chairman Jeff Joerres, the company has become an important part of the IBM Watson ecosystem," said Kevin Kimberlin, chairman of Spencer Trask & Co. and Spencer Trask Collaborative Innovations executive committee member. "Thanks to Mike's hard work and dedication, we've now incorporated Watson Cognitive Intelligence into the inno360 product offering." This past February Turillo took the stage at the IBM Annual Investor Briefing and was introduced by IBM Watson General Manager David Kenny who said: "Again, this is the first-inning. The Ecosystem partners grew 3X last year, and the first one I want to talk about is inno360. I'm very excited about this partner because they are bringing Watson to a lot of other big, important companies making important decisions with Artificial Intelligence." Click here to return to Contents

Vero Appoints Steve Youngs as Development Director 2 November 2016 Vero Software has appointed Steve Youngs as Development Director. He is responsible for managing the ongoing technical development of all Vero’s CAD/CAM brands which drive CNC machines cutting metal solids. Overseeing more than 100 development staff in eight offices across three continents, he is tasked with ensuring each brand’s twice-yearly release delivers large, high quality, new features on what he calls “this aggressive timescale.”

Page 15 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Working closely with Vero’s Strategic Product Director and Brand Managers, he analyses feedback from customers, sales channels and applications engineers, to provide features the market needs. “We also consider market trends, new technological innovation and areas where we think we can provide a better solution for manufacturers. Also, by working with our colleagues in the wider Hexagon Group, we’re now able to offer solutions that encompass more than just CAD/CAM software. “We pride ourselves on listening to all our customers and resellers. Through this approach we maintain our competitive advantage in the CAD/CAM software market and, in turn, help our customers maintain a competitive edge in their own marketplaces.” Becoming part of Vero when the company acquired Machining Strategist in 2002, he ran the development office in Cambridge before moving to the Cheltenham head office three years later. He continued to run the Machining Strategist development team and also worked closely with the VISI development team until 2015 when he became Technical and Integration Manager for Vero’s CAD/CAM brands – a post he held until his appointment as Development Director. His career highlights include developing Machining Strategist into one of the first 64-bit and multi- threaded CAM applications on the market, and working with academic partners to help them gain their PhDs. “And more recently, aligning our development teams to deliver high quality releases twice a year has been particularly rewarding.” He intends to increase the pace of developing existing products to improve customers’ productivity even further. “These are exciting times for the CAD/CAM/CAE market. I can foresee further consolidation within the industry, and with new manufacturing methods, and increasingly complex CNC machines, new technology will need to be delivered at ever-increasing speed.” Click here to return to Contents

Visual 2000 Announces Partnership with Mexcostura 10 November 2016 Visual 2000 International Inc. is pleased to announce an official partnership with Mexcostura, a Mexico- based corporation with strong roots and deep knowledge of the AFA market. The Visual 2000 suite of omni-channel software for the apparel, footwear, and fashion accessories industry is expanding quickly to new markets. To support the demand of emerging fashion capital, Visual 2000 is proud to partner with experienced and passionate professionals. The CEO of Mexcostura, Alejandro Faes Noriega, has served on the board of several trade associations, including the International Apparel Federation, National Apparel Manufacturers Association of Mexico, and CONCAMIN, Mexico's largest manufacturing association. "Mexcostura has positioned itself as a technology leader in the apparel and footwear industry in Mexico," explains Alejandro Faes. "We foresee a change in the needs of our customer base and this partnership with Visual 2000 will enable Mexican companies to enhance their processes and access critical information in real time. The Visual 2000 End2End solution provides a complete toolset for the apparel industry." Charles Benoualid, VP of Research and Development of Visual 2000, comments, "We are excited about this new venture in Mexico. Mexcostura is a progressive and well-established technology supplier to the Mexican Apparel industry. Together we will provide our expertise and build strong partnerships with

Page 16 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary our future customers." This new partnership will lead both companies to an even stronger positioning in the thriving textile industry. According to the United States Department of Commerce International Trade Administration, it currently accounts for 6 percent of Mexico's gross domestic product and nearly 20 percent of all manufacturing employment. Click here to return to Contents Events News

CloudCities Provides Interactive 3D Conference Map for Autodesk University 2016 10 November 2016 CloudCities will provide the interactive 3D conference map for Autodesk University (AU) 2016, which will be displayed on multiple large screens at the venue. The 3D map hosted on CloudCities gives an overview of the events and exhibits – both outdoors on the Las Vegas strip and indoors within the Venetian hotel. Visitors can use the multiple displays at the venue or on the website to locate classes, keynotes, and exhibitors. AU is the most prominent meetup for designers, engineers, contractors, manufacturers, and digital artists, with more than 10,000 attendees and 700 sessions. The CloudCities solutions team created the 3D map based on 2D CAD and GIS plans. The 3D data and the event information were integrated using the CloudCities platform. “The 3D conference map supports our effort to make Autodesk University 2016 more experiential and more visible,” says Teresa Anania, Director, Subscriber Success, Autodesk Inc. The natural interaction with the 3D model creates an engaging experience that invites participants to explore and connect with the event, its exhibits, and attendees.” “We’re delighted to be selected by the Autodesk Event Technology team to build and host the interactive 3D map for Autodesk University 2016.” said Antje Kunze, CEO of CloudCities. “We’ve created an application for communication and presentation of ideas that are intuitive, immersive and scalable. With the latest release, CloudCities adds support for Autodesk FBX. This exchange format makes it possible for Autodesk AutoCAD, Autodesk Revit, Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D, and Autodesk InfraWorks users to bring their 3D models into CloudCities.” Click here to return to Contents

Leading Companies to Present on Global Deployments of Aras at PI Congress 7 November 2016 Aras® today announced that Microsoft and Carestream Health will present at the Product Innovation (PI) Congress in Orange County, California on November 17-18, 2016. Aras will attend and sponsor the conference which convenes global product development leaders from a range of industry sectors. The PI Congress convenes leading product innovators for strategy sessions, discussions, and case studies on digital business and the transformation of product development, manufacturing, and supply chain operations across industries.

Page 17 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Two conference sessions will cover business of engineering innovations and global deployment approaches based on the Aras PLM platform. Presentations including Aras: Microsoft: Harnessing the Power of Agile Development to Deploy a Robust, Dynamic and Easily Configurable PLM Platform - Day 1 | 17 November 2016 at 4:25pm PST | Room 1 Carestream Health: Impact of the Third Wave of IT, The Industrial Internet & Ubiquitous Connectivity to Product Companies - Day 1 | 17 November 2016 at 2:35pm PST | Room 3 Click here to return to Contents

Mass Innovation Nights Announces Education Tech Event with Dassault Systemes 9 November 2016 The first ever Mass Innovation Nights education tech-themed event will be held on November 16, 2016, 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm. The event will be held at Dassault Systèmes headquarters in Waltham, Mass. "There are so many interesting and disruptive products out there with the potential to change the way we learn," said Bobbie Carlton, the founder of Innovation Nights, and Innovation Women. "We're excited to be bringing attention to this important tech sector so often overlooked." "Dassault Systèmes recently announced SOLIDWORKS Apps for Kids, aimed at encouraging kids to get excited about STEM fields," said Marie Planchard, director of education and early development, Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS. "Mass Innovation Nights 'ed tech' is a great opportunity to support educational technology at a local level." Free of charge and open to the public, MIN #92 "ed tech" features experts, networking, tabletop presentations with new local products and presentations from the winners of online voting. Click here to return to Contents

PTC Announces LiveWorx® 2017; Call for Presenters Open Through November 28 9 November 2016 PTC today announced that it will host LiveWorx® 17 in the heart of Boston from May 22-25, 2017. This premier global Internet of Things (IoT) technology business conference and marketplace will showcase solutions engineered for a smart, connected world. The award-winning LiveWorx event provides a vibrant atmosphere where leaders, experts, and industry influencers come together to discuss, debate, exchange, explore, and learn first-hand how cutting edge technologies are transforming the world of tomorrow. LiveWorx 2017 will feature sessions covering 30 different topics across nine industries. The Call for Presenters is now open, which means PTC is recruiting global customers and third-party experts to share their knowledge with over 6,000 technology professionals from around the world. Submissions must be completed by November 28, 2016. LiveWorx is a global technology conference and marketplace for solutions engineered for a smart, connected world. Learn from early adopters new ways to use existing tools and platforms and find new value born from the industrial Internet of Things.

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Rand 3D Brings Comprehensive Suite of PLM Solutions to Product Innovation Congress 2016 7 November 2016 Rand Worldwide today announces its Rand 3D division will share key Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) insights at the Product Innovation Congress. Rand 3D experts will be on hand to discuss PLM solutions from Dassault Systèmes as well as solutions from Rand 3D that include classroom and online PLM training, PLM courseware materials and custom documentation solutions. The conference will be held at the Monarch Beach Resort in Orange County, CA on November 17 and 18, 2016. “Choosing a PLM platform is a transformative process that requires the perfect mix of technology, implementation expertise, adoption and documentation of the resulting new workflows for consistency,” says Meghan Foster, director of sales for Rand 3D. “That’s why Rand 3D is pleased to be at PI Congress 2016 sharing our experience of recommending technology, creating training programs, developing courseware and custom PLM documentation services that help organizations manage the entire PLM project as well as their CAD data and bill of materials.” Rand 3D’s training, whether in-class or virtual, is designed to increase on-the-job productivity by identifying and addressing gaps in skills across the entire PLM team. Classes utilize a variety of learning styles and knowledge assessment tools and are led by the industry’s foremost subject matter experts. Rand 3D has access to the highest quality training materials developed by ASCENT- Center for Technical Knowledge. ASCENT also works closely with Rand 3D to develop custom workflow documentation that enables the successful adoption of PLM solutions across unique customer environments. As a certified Dassault Systèmes Partner, Rand 3D also offers the 3DExperience and the ENOVIA product suite in addition to software solutions for the CATIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA, and SIMULIA brands. Rand 3D is also a member of the Dassault Certified Education Partner Program, providing access to an extensive library of additional training materials and eLearning solutions for Dassault Systèmes software. Click here to return to Contents Financial News

ANSYS Reports Q3 2016 Financial Results 3 November 2016 ANSYS, Inc. today announced growth in both revenue and diluted earnings per share for the third quarter of 2016. The Company reported revenue growth of 2% in constant currency on both a GAAP and non-GAAP basis. Earnings per share rose 8% on a GAAP basis and 6% on a non-GAAP basis. Commenting on the Company’s third quarter 2016 performance, Jim Cashman, ANSYS CEO stated, “Overall, we delivered earnings results which exceeded our expectation, with strong gross and operating margins. Revenue growth, which was at the lower end of our revenue range, was impacted by an increase in leasing and lower year-over-year perpetual revenue due largely to a challenging comparison to Q3 2015. Our lease license revenues grew 7% in constant currency and our maintenance revenue grew 9% in constant currency, contributing to our recurring revenue base strengthening to 76% of

Page 19 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary revenue for the quarter. Germany, Japan, China and Taiwan led the performance, while we saw slower growth in North America and parts of Europe.” Cashman further stated, “Today also marks yet another step forward in our systems strategy with the addition of Berlin-based KPIT medini Technologies AG, a leading provider of systems safety analysis solutions. As ANSYS continues expanding its leading simulation software platform into system and software engineering, it is important to include tools in the portfolio that manage and streamline complex system engineering processes. Functional safety aspects of system engineering are of particular importance as many of today’s customer products are of safety-critical nature, such as autonomous driving systems, control systems and avionics.” ANSYS' third quarter and year-to-date financial results are presented below. The 2016 and 2015 non- GAAP results exclude the income statement effects of acquisition accounting adjustments to deferred revenue, the impact of stock-based compensation, acquisition-related amortization of intangible assets and acquisition-related transaction costs. Click here to read the full report. Click here to return to Contents

L&T Infotech Posts Strong Growth in Revenue Driven by Digital Services 9 November 2016 L&T Infotech announced its Q2 FY17 results today. In US Dollars:  Revenue at USD 239.7 million growth of 3.7% QoQ and 7.0% YoY  Constant Currency Revenue growth of 3.6% QoQ and 7.2% YoY In Indian Rupees:  Revenue at Rs 16,020 million; growth at 3.0% QoQ and 9.1% YoY  Net Income at Rs 2,326 million; Net Income growth at (1.3)% QoQ and 11.3% YoY  Net Income Margin at 14.3%, down 58bps QoQ and up 52bps YoY "I am happy to report a strong quarter-on-quarter growth of 3.7% in the top line. This solid performance is result of our investments in new service lines, partnerships and building a robust sales and marketing engine. We announced the acquisition of AugmentIQ in big data and analytics space last month, which positions us to enable accelerated data monetization for clients across verticals. Our client-centric approach has helped us win critical engagements in five growth areas of – Digital, Analytics, IoT, Cloud Apps and Automation, many of them against significantly larger and global incumbents. We will remain focused on implementing our LTI 2.0 strategy."- Sanjay Jalona, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director Click here to read the full report. Click here to return to Contents

Page 20 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Materialise Reports Third Quarter 2016 Results 9 November 2016 Materialise NV today announced its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2016. Highlights – Third Quarter 2016  Total revenue increased 11.0% from the third quarter of 2015 to 28,736 kEUR, with increases in all three business segments.  Materialise Software revenue up 21.1% from the third quarter of 2015.  Adjusted EBITDA was 2,833 kEUR compared to 1,175 kEUR for the third quarter of 2015  Total deferred revenue from annual software sales and maintenance contracts increased 2,347 kEUR from 11,816 kEUR for the third quarter of 2015 to 14,163 kEUR for the third quarter of 2016. Executive Chairman Peter Leys commented, “Despite continued soft market conditions, Materialise again delivered double-digit revenue growth and an increase in Adjusted EBITDA. Led by gains in our Materialise Software segment, where we realized strong gains in new licenses and recurring license revenue, total revenue rose 11.0% from the third quarter of 2015. Adjusted EBITDA increased from 1,175 kEUR to 2,833 kEUR. While many market participants continue to await the introduction of the next generation of printers, Materialise took a significant step forward with the launch of our partnership with HOYA Vision Care to transform the eyewear industry. Together, we are enabling the world’s first vision-centric 3D-tailored eyewear, using 3D printing technology to provide individualized lens and frame design backed by an end-to-end digital supply chain. Our groundbreaking partnership with an industry leader is a prime example of the way we continue to position Materialise as the software and services backbone of the 3D printing industry. We are developing additional meaningful partnerships that should serve us well when the industry resumes its growth and continue to fine-tune our operations to enhance efficiency.” Third Quarter 2016 Results Total revenue for the third quarter of 2016 increased by 11.0% to 28,736 kEUR compared to 25,883 kEUR for the third quarter of 2015, with gains in all three of our segments, particularly Materialise Software. Adjusted EBITDA increased from 1,175 kEUR to 2,833 kEUR, as a result of the combination of continued revenue growth, an improvement in our gross margins and a modest increase in operational expenses. The Adjusted EBITDA margin (Adjusted EBITDA divided by total revenue) in the third quarter was 9.9% compared to 4.5% in the third quarter of last year. Click here to read the full report. Click here to return to Contents Implementation Investments

Centric Software PLM Chosen by J.Lindeberg 10 November 2016 J.Lindeberg, a Swedish fashion and sportswear brand, has selected Centric Software to provide its

Page 21 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. With distribution in 900 stores across 37 countries, J.Lindeberg had grown to the point where a PLM system became necessary to keep track of product information to control product margins. "As our company is growing we are moving into the next generation of development, we have realized a need to improve and further develop our intelligence in the assortment planning and cost control processes," says Amelie Sernung, Business Developer & Controller. "The fashion industry is a fast paced environment and in order to drive performance, we identified a need to minimize the non-value adding activities as well as improve information sharing throughout all divisions at J.Lindeberg. By using Centric we will be able to collect and structure large amounts of information which will enable us to make sound decisions based on actual data and facts." Centric initially reached out to J.Lindeberg in late 2015, anticipating their potential need for a PLM solution. This kickstarted a process of considering a number of local vendors and international competitors and ended when J.Lindeberg selected Centric. As IT Director Marcus Mellberg explains, “J.Lindeberg are in a stage of digitalization and we need to have partners and tools that support and help to drive the continuous development phase that we are in. Centric has a great understanding and extensive experience in the fashion industry on both a global and local level; they understand where we come from and where we are going. Also we believe that the Centric PLM platform is agile and highly configurable, with great capabilities to streamline information, make the right data more available and visible helping us make the right decisions.” J.Lindeberg teams will work with the full Centric PLM suite, including their innovative mobile apps. “Here at J.Lindeberg, we are looking forward to having greater consistency in our data so that we can control product costs in a more effective way, speed up time to market and focus on business intelligence and innovation rather than administration. With Centric, we also expect to be able to work more often on the right products to get a better hit rate in the market,” says Sernung. “We are delighted to have been selected by J.Lindeberg as their partner,” says Chris Groves, President and CEO of Centric. “With J.Lindeberg's mix of active fashion and functional clothing, we are confident that they will continue to be successful and we are looking forward to partnering with them to help drive their business growth.” Click here to return to Contents

CFD Consultancy Signs Collaboration Agreement with Altair to Deploy HyperWorks for Geometry Pre-Processing 8 November 2016 Altair Engineering Inc. is pleased to announce the start of a collaboration with one of the UK’s leading CFD consultancy, TotalSim. The collaboration will start with TotalSim UK adopting HyperMesh, part of the HyperWorks suite, as their main geometry pre-processor for CFD. This is a significant achievement and demonstrates the advances made in the development of Altair’s CFD toolset. TotalSim UK will transition away from their incumbent solution and explore other tools within the HyperWorks suite. TotalSim UK is an independent limited company established in 2007. Leaders in the field of CFD and aerodynamics, they specialise in CFD consultancy, CFD hardware, software development and support.

Page 22 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary At present TotalSim has 25 employees in the UK with many years’ experience of applied Computational Fluid Dynamics and a combined pool of expertise capable of tackling most engineering problems.

Altair Engineering is the developer of the HyperWorks suite of software packages including HyperMesh & HyperView. HyperMesh is used for creating or modifying computational models and HyperView is used for post processing results. HyperMesh is a market-leading, multi-disciplinary finite element pre- processor which manages the generation of the largest, most complex models, starting with the import of a CAD geometry to exporting ready-to-run solver file. Over the last 20 years, HyperMesh has evolved into the leading premier pre-processor for concept and high fidelity modelling.

“We are looking forward to working with Altair to integrate HyperMesh into our process and to use its functionality to help us face a wide range of complex challenges,” said Rob Lewis, Managing Director, TotalSim UK. Click here to return to Contents

Dassault Systèmes and ASE Group Announce Cooperation Agreement to Support Innovation Processes of Large Capital Infrastructure Projects 8 November 2016 Dassault Systèmes and the leading Russian nuclear power plant engineering procurement and construction company, ASE Group of Companies (ASE), part of Rosatom Group, today announced the signing of a global, three-year cooperation agreement at the Third International Conference on Nuclear Knowledge Management held at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. The agreement is designed to use each company’s core capabilities to deliver greater support for customers’ innovation processes in nuclear power, as well as other segments of the energy, process and utilities industry. ASE will leverage Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform as part of its Multi-D Solution offering for large capital facilities design, construction and operations management in nuclear power and other key industrial segments. ASE’s Multi-D Solution combines Dassault Systèmes’ applications to optimize complex business processes and carry out detailed modeling of construction and installation processes based on multiple sources’ data, with ASE’s integration and consulting services featuring best practices, methodologies and engineering know-how for managing the construction and operations of capital infrastructure facilities. Previously, Multi-D was implemented exclusively within ASE’s own projects. With this agreement, ASE can expand the business value brought by this combined solution to capital construction, production operations and maintenance projects in Russia and abroad on a project management consultancy basis. “The Multi-D Solution facilitates the effective management of parameters such as budget, deadlines and quality for complex engineering facilities,” said Vyacheslav Alenkov, Director, System Engineering, ASE. “Our cooperation agreement with Dassault Systèmes enables us to broaden the reach of our innovative Multi-D Solution and bring greater benefits to nuclear and other industries.” “Since 2012, we’ve worked with NIAEP, part of ASE Group, to optimize Multi-D for every stage of the business cycle and demonstrate possibilities for greater sustainability in nuclear,” said Thomas Grand, Vice President, Energy, Process and Utilities Industry, Dassault Systèmes. “The 3DEXPERIENCE platform presents engineering, procurement and construction companies, owners, operators, regulators

Page 23 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary and suppliers with a trusted collaborative environment to innovate, build, operate, supply and recycle. The combination of our software capabilities with ASE’s know-how boosts their ability to design and optimize energy production systems and gain a competitive advantage in other industrial sectors.” Click here to return to Contents

PTC’s ThingWorx Application Enablement Platform Chosen by Vodafone for Rapid IoT Application Development 10 November 2016 PTC and Vodafone Group today announced that PTC’s ThingWorx® application enablement platform has been chosen by the company to help in the development of new Vodafone Internet of Things (IoT) applications. PTC’s ThingWorx platform includes rapid application enablement functionality, device management, machine learning capabilities, and augmented reality. Vodafone is the world leader in providing managed IoT connectivity services and offers end to end capabilities for a variety of sectors including automotive, insurance, and manufacturing. PTC is a globally recognized leader in IoT application enablement and software management. The ThingWorx platform will allow Vodafone to rapidly develop new IoT applications and services. Additionally, ThingWorx offers a common set of components that can be quickly deployed across Vodafone’s footprint of operating companies, further enhancing the company’s ability to offer enterprise customers digital transformation services in a globally consistent way. “PTC’s IoT strategy is predicated on providing the most efficient and complete platform that companies like Vodafone require to develop new and innovative applications or offerings that will support and strengthen their businesses,” said John Stuart, divisional vice president, global IoT sales and partners, PTC. “This collaboration further validates PTC’s approach to the IoT space, and we look forward to working with Vodafone to create new IoT services.” “Vodafone has a rich portfolio of IoT services and we share APIs with our customers and their development teams for co-creation,” said Ivo Rook, IoT director, Vodafone. “We believe that by combining these services with ThingWorx and our wider partner ecosystem we can rapidly develop new Vodafone IoT capabilities to maintain our leadership position and make it easier for our customers to benefit from the wider opportunities of IoT.” Click here to return to Contents Product News

Atos Launches the First Quantum Computing Industry Program in Europe 6 November 2016 Atos launches "Atos Quantum", an ambitious program to develop quantum computing solutions that offer unprecedented computing power, while enhancing its cyber security products to face with these new technologies. The program was reviewed and launched in the presence of world-renowned quantum physicists and mathematicians:

Page 24 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary  Alain Aspect, professor at the Institut d'Optique Graduate School and Ecole Polytechnique, Université Paris-Saclay;  David DiVincenzo, Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Director of the Institute for Quantum Information at RWTH Aachen University, Director of the Institute for Theoretical Nanoelectronics at the Juelich Research Center;  Artur Ekert, Professor of Quantum Physics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford; Lee Kong Chian, Centennial Professor and Director, Centre of Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore;  Daniel Estève, Research Director, CEA Saclay, head of Quantronics;  Serge Haroche, Professor emeritus at the Collège de France, Nobel laureate in Physics;  Cédric Villani, Professor at University of Lyon Claude Bernard, Head of the Henri Poincaré Institute CNRS/UPMC, Fields Medal laureate. On this occasion, Thierry Breton, CEO and Chairman of Atos, said: "The first quantum revolution, led in the early twentieth century by young Europeans of the likes of Einstein, Heisenberg, Pauli or Schrödinger, gave birth over the years to major inventions including superconductivity, transistor, laser, fiber-optic communications, MRI, GPS etc... Today, taking advantage of our expertise in supercomputers and cyber security, we are fully committed to the second quantum revolution that will disrupt all of our clients' business activities in the coming decades, from medicine to agriculture through finance and industries. It's a real collective, human and technological adventure that opens up to us. For the one who liked the digital evolution they will love the quantum revolution." Atos Quantum targets notably the following developments and industrial integration:  Developing a quantum simulation platform to enable researchers to test, as of now, algorithms and software for future quantum computers  Creating an algorithm development and programming cluster to develop a portfolio of quantum applications, in particular for Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, supercomputing and cyber security  Designing innovative computing architectures to enable applications to benefit from the colossal power provided by quantum and standard environments available on conventional supercomputers  Developing new quantum safe cryptography algorithms to make applications inviolable by quantum methods and preserve existing safety levels that enable, amongst other things, the secure operation of the Internet, electronic business, and the protection of personal data. Atos Quantum fits into Atos' rich technological ecosystem. The Group already has 15 R&D centres and has created a new quantum research and development laboratory in France, near Paris, with a dedicated quantum team. Atos Quantum also benefits from the dynamics of the Group in supercomputing, numerical simulation and cyber security. To simulate quantum computing, Atos Quantum can already rely on the computing power of the Bull sequana supercomputer, launched in April 2016, and its program to achieve exaflop performance - 1 billion billion operations per second. Quantum computation is expected in the next decades to confront the explosion of data generated by the

Page 25 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Big Data and the Internet of Things revolution. It should also generate significant advances in deep learning and artificial intelligence. To move forward on these critical issues, Atos intends to set up several partnerships with research centers and universities worldwide. Click here to return to Contents goPaddle Platform Supports Just-In-Time Software Releases 7 November 2016 Bluemeric, a Cloud & DevOps automation company, today announced the release of the next version of goPaddle v3.0, an ALM PaaS platform built using container technology. DevOps has been borrowing concepts from the manufacturing industry to identify the bottlenecks in the software release process to make Just-In-Time (JIT) Software delivery. Combining the lean software practices with the JIT makes a powerful DevOps culture within the organisation. goPaddle v3.0 covers application lifecycle management starting from release planning to production deployments, such that any bottlenecks in the application lifecycle can be identified & rectified through intelligent analytics. Release Pipelines provide the workflow automation for continuous build, integration and deployment across different stages of the lifecycle. Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) or Atlassian Jira users can now link their release or project plans with goPaddle, onboard an application from an existing source control repository, build a release pipeline and measure the release effectiveness over a period of time. This comes along with the portability benefit as well. goPaddle packages the applications as Docker containers, thus applications built once using goPaddle can be deployed on AWS, Google or Azure Cloud. In case of Azure, goPaddle goes one step further to support portable deployments across Docker Swarm or Kubernetes. goPaddle provides a seamless experience to Google & Azure Developers by allowing Single-Sign-On using existing cloud accounts and provide a single-click provisioning of deployment environments. In case of AWS, the goPaddle command line tool helps to provision scalable Kubernetes cluster on AWS. The concept of "Bring Your Own Infrastructure" and the "Build Once Deploy Anywhere" completely alleviates vendor lock-in at every level. Technology companies like Offshore Development Centres (ODC), BFSI, FinTech and e-commerce companies can take advantage of this platform for streamlining and automating their end-to-end application lifecycle management. For developers and growing businesses, the platform is available as hosted subscription model. Developer license gives a lifetime free subscription to use the platform and as the team size increases, the teams can leverage the pay-as-you-grow model. For large enterprises, the solution is available as an on-premise edition with perpetual license, training and enterprise SLAs. Bluemeric is exhibiting the solution at Kubecon, Seattle on Nov 8-9. Click here to return to Contents

Intergraph® Process, Power & Marine Launches CADWorx® Structure 7 November 2016 Intergraph® Process, Power & Marine (PP&M) today announces the release of Intergraph CADWorx® Structure 2017, an AutoCAD-based fit-for-purpose tool for creating concrete and steel structure designs and engineers who model plant buildings, pipe racks, offshore topsides, and industrial structures that are

Page 26 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary part of the process, power, and manufacturing plant world. This solution has been developed with end users in mind at every decision point and includes the targeted tools needed to create revenue-driven plant structure models very easily and quickly. Just as CADWorx Plant Professional provides an easy-to-use solution for piping designers, CADWorx Structure is focused on excelling in structural modeling and design. While other structural software packages are overrun with options and add-ons a structural designer will never use, CADWorx Structure has been purpose built to deliver structural designs with virtually no technical and administrative overhead. "We are very happy to include CADWorx Structure into the CADWorx Plant Design Suite, and we are certain it fills the industry's need for a purpose-built structural design solutions," said Intergraph CADWorx & Analysis Solutions President Rick Allen. "CADWorx has been unique in delivering effective and easy-to-use solutions to customer's problems, and we will continue to expand CADWorx into other 3D modeling markets in the coming years. Intergraph CADWorx® & Analysis Solutions' offerings allow design and engineering to share relevant information seamlessly, thereby maintaining accuracy and improving efficiency. These include CADWorx Plant Design Suite, for AutoCAD®-based intelligent plant design modeling, process schematics and automatic production of plant design deliverables; CADWorx DraftPro®, a free solution for intelligent 2D design and layout; CAESAR II®, the world's most widely used pipe stress analysis software; PV Elite®, for vessel and exchanger design and analysis; TANK™, for the design and analysis of oil storage tanks; GT STRUDL®, one of the most trusted, adaptable and fully-integrated structural analysis solutions in the world; and Visual Vessel Design, a comprehensive pressure vessel, shell and tube exchanger, and boiler design and analysis solution. Click here to return to Contents

MSC Software's Marc 2016 Delivers New Material Models for Complex Physics Simulations 7 November 2016 MSC Software Corporation announced the new release of Marc 2016. Marc is relied upon by product manufacturers for nonlinear and Multiphysics simulations of engineered products ranging from automotive rubber components to aerospace composite modeling and for Multiphysics analysis of medical and consumer electronic devices. Accurate simulation of complex material behavior depends not only on constitutive formulations, but also on the physical testing that needs to be done in order to characterize them. Marc 2016 introduces multiple material modeling capabilities, enhanced data fitting for material characterization, and additional user productivity enhancements. Highlights of this release include: New Material Models for Manufacturing Simulations  Understanding phase transformation of materials helps to optimize the manufacturing processes such as welding, casting, forging and heat treatment. Manufacturing engineers can use Marc 2016 to model as many as 5 phases, and predict material hardness, strength, residual stress distribution and final distortion.  Five new methods are introduced to define the flow stress as a function of the equivalent plastic

Page 27 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary strain, strain rate, temperature, and user-defined parameters. This provides added flexibility in the choice of plasticity models, especially for manufacturing process simulations.  Johnson-Cook damage model is frequently used in the engineering community to model damage progression in metals at elevated temperatures and high strain rates. This model, available in this release, can also be used to predict tearing or fracture of metal during operations like riveting process. New Material Data Fitting Capabilities to Characterize Advanced Elastomers  Characterization of materials requires derivation of specific parameters from test data, which can be a cumbersome task for complex models. Marc 2016 introduces data fitting capabilities for recently introduced elastomer models, including Bergstrom-Boyce, Payne, and thermorheologically simple viscoelastic materials. Engineers from the automotive, aerospace, machinery, and oil and gas industries, working on elastomers will save time and effort coupling test data with analysis. Contact Enhancements for Better Accuracy and Performance  While the contact set up has always been easy to use with Marc, contact results with the traditional node-to-segment approach depends on the body ordering. A new capability is introduced in segment-to-segment contact method to overcome this limitation which helps users set up and solve complex contact problems faster. The parallel processing technology has also been enhanced to support the segment-to-segment contact method enabling users to run contact analyses twice as fast using a 4-core system, which improves their productivity. Enhanced Local Adaptive Meshing Methods to Improve Accuracy  Local adaptive meshing is often used to get better accuracy in regions of high gradients by refining the mesh in these regions. The mesh refinement based on contact detection has been enhanced to provide additional flexibility to users and to reduce unneeded refinement for better performance. User Interface Improvements for Ease of Use and Efficiency  Mentat, the user interface of Marc, has been enhanced by the addition of new mobile icons for easy access to commonly performed tasks.  Geometry associativity has been enhanced to include material, geometric, and contact capabilities. This will provide complete associativity between the CAD model and the finite element discretization. The associativity is maintained with CAD model changes through Boolean operations (union, subtract) or geometry modifications like blending or chamfering.  Mentat 2016 introduces a new capability to imprint the geometry of one or more entities onto another solid, enabling mesh congruency between solids, and better quality results in this region. Click here to return to Contents

Renesas Electronics and ESCRYPT Collaborate on Combined Hardware/Software Solution with High-Level Security for Protecting Automotive ECUs 9 November 2016

Page 28 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Renesas Electronics Corporation and ESCRYPT GmbH (“ESCRYPT”), a leading system provider for embedded security, today announced their collaboration on an integrated hardware and software platform solution that provides high-level security for protecting automotive electronic control units (ECUs). The new joint hardware/software platform solution comprises Renesas' RH850/P1x-C Series of automotive safety microcontrollers (MCUs) that combine on a single-chip: functional safety, security, and vehicle control network technologies, with ESCRYPT’s CycurHSM, a security software stack, to realize highly complex automotive security solutions. The new solution reduces development time and integrates security functions in safety-critical automotive ECU applications. Additionally, the solution serves as a stepping stone to achieve autonomous driving by accelerating the integration of safety and security functions. In the autonomous-driving era, in-vehicle infotainment, vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), and vehicle-to- infrastructure (V2I) networks are expected to become mainstream. The connectivity between these networks allows systems to obtain information on road conditions and other factors that could impact the driving experience. It also requires robust security measures to ensure the systems are protected from unauthorized external access. The RH850/P1x-C Series integrates a hardware security module with a co-processor supporting data encryption, authentication and random number generation to address these mission-critical security requirements in vehicle systems. CycurHSM is a security software stack that perfectly fits RH850/P1x-C MCUs and complements the security features in hardware with additional security services, e.g., secure boot, secure flashing, and debugging. New use cases such as software updates Over The Air (OTA) or advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and the resulting in-vehicle communications require higher ECU protection levels against unauthorized or malicious access and manipulation. Therefore, in addition to protection through software, hardware security protection within the ECU has also become essential. The globally available combination of Renesas and ESCRYPT products enhances security of connected, highly-automated vehicles, provides high value, and solves these security problems. The jointly-developed integrated hardware and software platform solution is now available. Click here to return to Contents

SAP Enables Fast and Efficient Development with New IoT Application Services 9 November 2016 SAP today introduced SAP Internet of Things (IoT) Application Enablement solution. This SAP HANA Cloud Platform IoT service helps customers and partners achieve fast time to value and develop IoT solutions efficiently. SAP IoT Application Enablement provides Big Data management and services consumption without the need for managing the underlying data storage. It allows users to create an enhanced virtual representation of a product, service or process, combining sensor data, business data and contextual data. The announcement was made at SAP TechEd Barcelona being held Nov. 8–9, 2016. “SAP IoT Application Enablement provides a powerful virtual model that shows how a thing will operate with real time data over its lifetime,” said Tanja Rueckert, executive vice president, Digital

Page 29 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Assets and IoT, SAP. “It also delivers an IoT tailored development environment that promotes development efficiencies and provides a common foundation across all apps. Customers are now able to develop IoT solutions efficiently, with a reduction in errors and ultimately an increased time to market.” Rapid IoT Development and Smart Data Storage Maximizing the value of IoT requires a powerful digital core, and with SAP S/4HANA, businesses can change the very nature of how they work, with the ability to predict, control, simulate and optimize in real time. With 40 years of experience building powerful end-to-end business applications, SAP understands that semantic data is a fundamental ingredient in designing objects and processes. With the IoT Application Enablement solution, SAP customers can create an enhanced digital twin of a business asset, combining sensor data with business information and contextual information, resulting in improved visibility and control. The new product includes three key classes of functionality: development environment and tools, microservices and smart data storage, and integration to business processes and applications. Enhanced Virtual Products, Services and Processes By combining an accurate virtual model of how a thing operates with real-time data collected by sensors, companies will have an increasingly detailed and realistic digital representations over the lifetime of a physical asset. Powered by SAP HANA Cloud Platform, SAP IoT Application Enablement delivers powerful microservices that allow other systems to retrieve enriched digital twin data including business semantics, hierarchy data, product master data and customer contract documentation. Develop IoT Applications Faster and Smarter The SAP IoT Application Enablement solution provides a software development kit and development environment that includes code-generating templates, which can be easily extended. This feature allows developers to focus on design instead of coding, helping them create new applications in less time. Additionally, the product provides a robust application program interface to populate a sophisticated semantic data model with a combination of sensor and business data. An advanced authorization model provides support to control and define user access, supporting collaboration between a complex ecosystem of business partners. The solution has built-in features that eliminate the task of defining data management, by calculating aggregates, splitting data into warm and cold storage and automatically applying data retention policies. Utilizing SAP HANA Cloud Platform, integration service, to connect data from smart things with business processes and applications, SAP customers and partners can change how they run their businesses. They are better able to reduce error and speed time to market, while increasing innovation and overall customer satisfaction. Click here to return to Contents

SAP to Unveil SAP HANA 2 8 November 2016 SAP today announced the SAP HANA 2 platform, the next generation of SAP HANA optimized for innovation. SAP HANA 2 includes and extends the proven technology from SAP’s breakthrough in- memory computing platform to provide a new foundation for digital transformation. In addition, new SAP HANA microservices are available by subscription through the SAP Hybris as a Service (informally referred to as “YaaS”) marketplace to spur developer innovation by embedding richer insight into modern applications. These announcements were made at SAP TechEd

Page 30 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Barcelona being held Nov. 8–10. “SAP pioneered in-memory computing with the launch of SAP HANA in 2010 and throughout our journey we have driven breakthrough innovation on a highly stable core data platform for our customers,” said Bernd Leukert, member of the executive board, Products and Innovation, SAP SE. “The release of SAP HANA 2 marks a milestone in the industry, as it represents the next generation of SAP HANA that will propel customers toward a successful and prosperous digital future.” SAP HANA 2 is planned to be released to customers on November 30, 2016. The express edition of SAP HANA 2 will be available for delivery shortly after general availability to help organizations jump- start new development projects. As an innovation platform, SAP HANA 2 will deliver technology enhancements twice a year to support agile IT. Planned new key features and enhancements to help IT transform include:  Database management: IT organizations will be able to provide business continuity with enhanced high availability, security, workload management and administration enhancements. For example, the new active/active read-enabledoption enables IT organizations to leverage secondary systems – previously used only for system replication – to off-load read-intensive workloads for improved operations.  Data management: Businesses are expected to leverage data, regardless of where it resides, with enhancements to enterprise modeling, data integration, data quality and tiered storage. A new edition of the SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer Web application that works with and is powered by SAP HANA allows IT organizations to manage complex information architectures and visualize the potential impact of new technologies before they are implemented.  Analytical intelligence: Developers are embedding rich insight into applications with enhanced analytical processing engines for text, spatial, graph and streaming data. For example, new algorithms for classification, association, time series and regression have been added to the predictive analytics library to empower data scientists to discover new patterns and incorporate machine learning into custom applications.  Application development: Developers are expected to build and deploy next-generation applications with enhanced functions for application servers, development tools and languages. For example, bring-your-own-language support provides a choice of additional third-party build packs and runtimes that can be used within SAP HANA extended application services, advanced model. Also, a new file processor API enables developers to extract text and metadata from documents to deliver deeper insights. New SAP HANA Microservices in the Cloud Users of cloud-based microservices powered by SAP HANA can enhance applications with analytical insight using simple APIs and any language or development platform. The new SAP HANA services in the cloud include:  Text Analysis Entity Extraction, Text Analysis Fact Extraction and Text Analysis Linguistic Analysis: Use text data processing features in the cloud for application enhancement with natural language processing.  Earth Observation Analysis service (beta): Co-innovated with European Space Agency (ESA) and based on the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) EO-WCS standard, this

Page 31 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary microservice accesses satellite data from ESA and uses SAP HANA, spatial edition, to perform spatial processing in the cloud. The new service, announced today in conjunction with Munich RE, delivers historic information about vegetation, water, soil and other spectral indexes in real time. “SAP HANA 2 represents a continuation of technology innovation by SAP, designed to enable organizations to address the fast-changing aspects of digital business,” said Carl Olofson, research vice president, IDC. “SAP HANA 2 features new and enhanced functions that can enhance data management and accelerate application development for digital transformation. In addition, new SAP HANA microservices in the cloud, accessible through SAP Hybris as a Service, are expected to increase innovation of insight-driven applications to deliver competitive advantage for SAP customers.” Click here to return to Contents

Seica to Distribute Mentor Graphics Process Preparation Tool for FPT 7 November 2016 Mentor Graphics Corp. has announced that Seica, a supplier of automated test equipment for the electronics manufacturing industry, will offer the Valor Process Preparation tool to users of its Pilot Flying Probe Testers (FPT). The Valor Process Preparation product will help streamline the input of printed circuit board (PCB) design data and generation of test programs for Seica’s flying probe testers, thereby accelerating new product introduction (NPI) cycles. The Valor Process Preparation software offers a complete solution for PCB electrical test engineering, interfacing seamlessly with Seica’s VIVA software and delivering all the data required to generate a complete test program. The Valor Process Preparation design for test (DFT) engine enables optimization of test probe locations and automates probe offsets to compensate for differences in pad and solder mask openings, and to determine optimum approach for fine pitch leads. The Valor Process Preparation product supports 25 different CAD and CAM formats including Gerber and ODB++. "Our Flying Probe Testers are extremely popular in NPI-intensive environments and Valor Process Preparation helps our customers meet the need for both high test coverage and rapid test program generation," said Antonio Grassino, president, Seica. "Valor's integration with our VIVA software creates an optimal flow from design to test." "The Valor Process Preparation DFT engine applies our accumulated knowledge from the PCB design and manufacturing domains to assist customers in PCB testing," said Dan Hoz, general manager, Mentor Graphics Valor Division. "Our partnership with Seica allows our joint customers to implement a single platform for all of their process engineering needs starting from stencil through documentation, inspection and SMT programming." Click here to return to Contents

Sencha Delivers Next-Generation Web Application Lifecycle Management Platform 8 November 2016 Sencha today announced at SenchaCon the next generation of its Web Application Lifecycle Management Platform. The Sencha Platform allows developers to design, build and test data-intensive web applications and deliver the right user experience, on the right screen, at the right time. Key benefits

Page 32 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary include increased developer productivity, improved application quality and accelerated time-to-market for cross-platform web applications. In the enterprise, web applications must work seamlessly across multiple devices and live for long periods of time to maximize investments. With applications becoming increasingly sophisticated and data intensive, demands on development teams have increased, as have time to market pressures and customer expectations for a high-quality user experience. "The increasing complexity and data-intensive nature of modern web applications means developers need a comprehensive solution to design, develop and test their applications, and get them to market as quickly as possible," said Art Landro, CEO of Sencha. "With the advancements we're announcing today, Sencha is dedicated to enhancing the productivity of developers and equipping them with everything they need to build data-intensive modern web applications." The next generation of the Sencha Web Application Lifecycle Management Platform will include: Modernized and Integrated Frameworks  Enhancements to the Ext JS framework, which will embrace new language features of JavaScript ES2015, and adopt a modern and open toolchain.  Angular 2 and React integrations will enable powerful Ext JS components, including the data grid and pivot grid, to be used in Angular 2 and React-based applications. These integrations will enhance JavaScript community developers' ability to build powerful, data-centric, cross-platform applications.  Sencha GXT 5 is ushering in the future of web development with Java, which will give Java developers the ability to design and develop powerful web applications with the most-used programming language in the world. It now offers responsive design, true mobile widgets, material design and a new theming system. Sencha has also made GXT faster through CSS3, HTML5 and lightweight DOM access. Enhanced Development Productivity Tools  Sencha Visual Studio Code Plugin enables developers to write Ext JS apps from within Microsoft's new code editor, allowing advanced code generation and code completion.  Sencha Architect empowers developers to quickly create cross-platform Ext JS applications using visual drag and drop features, and now supports premium features, including Calendar and Pivot Grid, with the release of Architect 4.1.  Sencha Cmd provides support for ES2015 (formerly ES6) in Ext JS 6.x applications, giving developers a head start on using ES2015 in their apps.  The Sencha Electron package contains components and functionality that enables developers to more easily build desktop apps when using Ext JS with Electron, the open source application packager. Open and Intuitive Theming Tools  Sencha Themer allows developers and designers to easily and quickly style hundreds of framework components without writing any code. Themer 1.1 enables users to easily theme applications without having to style all of the UI components.

Page 33 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary  Sencha will open source Fashion, a JavaScript-based theme compiler. Fashion has been the foundation of the Ext JS theming system since Ext JS 6.0, and allows for near real-time theme generation. Fashion accepts most Sass source code and contains language extensions for better tooling support. Improved Application Testing  Sencha Test 2.0 now integrates WebDriver, enabling the inspection of elements and control of user agents to remotely interact with web browsers. WebDriver integration, combined with features including event recorder, screen comparisons, and results reporting, further speeds up test creation and automation for web applications. "More than ever, developers are under pressure to rapidly build -- and maintain -- data-intensive, cross- platform enterprise web applications. For this reason, developers are always looking for effective and well-supported technologies that benefit from the synergies of adoption by a large ecosystem." said Al Hilwa, program director of software development research at IDC. "Going forward, successful technologies are those which drive collaboration between IT and business units to build competitive advantage and increase business value." Click here to return to Contents

Silego Technology Announces Three New 14-pin and Three New 22-pin 2.0 x 2.2 mm GreenPAKTM Programmable Mixed-signal Matrix ICs 7 November 2016 Silego Technology announces three new 14-pin and three new 22-pin 2.0 x 2.2 mm GreenPAKTM Programmable Mixed-signal Matrix ICs, further expanding Silego's industry leading platform of Configurable Mixed-signal ICs (CMICs). Silego originally made this announcement at a press conference held in advance of electronica, "the World's Leading Trade Fair for Electronic Components, Systems and Applications," in Munich, Germany. The six new, feature-rich CMIC devices are designed to implement many system functions, such as system reset, power sequencing, voltage monitoring, and more, with minimal space and power overhead. The devices have been designed to make adding new features to highly integrated systems relatively easy with integrated, programmable analog and digital components, such as look-up tables, D-flip flops, counters, delays, analog comparators, and more. Also included in these devices are the Asynchronous State Machine and I2C blocks. These two features add more flexibility, functionality, and ease of design to the GreenPAK family of devices. With the addition of the Asynchronous State Machine, designers can implement up to 8 unique states with zero code, zero static power, and fail-safe operation. GreenPAK I2C enables designers to change device configuration, such as analog comparator thresholds, quickly, and allows designers to act as a GPIO expander, writing digital signals to component inputs. Like other devices in the GreenPAK family, creating custom mixed-signal projects is made simple using the GreenPAK development hardware and simple GUI interface of GreenPAK Designer, allowing engineers to quickly and easily implement new designs and respond to changing design requirements. Additionally, with these devices, designers can now perform on-board emulation and in-system debug, using I2C.

Page 34 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary "These six new devices allow us to offer even more value in a smaller area," states Sean Carty, Sr. Product Marketing Engineer. "We believe the amount of flexibility and features these devices provide in just 4.4 mm2 is phenomenal. Silego continues to add new and exciting products, bringing more solutions to our customers to facilitate differentiation in their products using minimal additional board space and power." Since the introduction of the CMIC platform, Silego has developed five generations of CMIC silicon and design tools. Each generation has added functionality and enhanced the design experience. As a result, over 1,300 designs incorporating CMICs by Silego customers have gone into production in almost every end market:  Handheld Devices  Wearable Electronics  Computing & Storage  Consumer Electronics  Smart Home  Networking & Communications  Medical & Industrial The new part numbers are the 14-pin SLG46534V, SLG46535V, and SLG46536V as well as the 22-pin SLG46533M, SLG46537M, and SLG46538M. Click here to return to Contents

Sopheon’s Accolade 11.0 Enables Enterprise Transformational Change Initiatives 3 November 2016 Sopheon today announced the latest version of its Accolade® Enterprise Innovation Management (EIM) solution. Working hand-in-hand with some of the world’s largest and most innovative companies has allowed Sopheon to deeply understand the value that software can play in enterprise strategy realization. It is this learning that has driven much of the new capabilities in Accolade 11.0 with its ambition to favorably impact the realization of corporate initiatives. Andy Michuda, CEO, stated: “The constant pull between ‘responsible, safe, secure’ and ‘speed, ease of use, smart’ is evident in every client who is evolving new operating models to compete in today’s digital market. We feel good about the user community excitement in support of our vision and Accolade roadmap in addressing these evolving challenges.” Accolade 11.0 introduces:  Dramatic new capabilities enabling quick and easy dynamic information management. Sopheon is empowering customers to quickly and easily self-configure their users’ work environment, dramatically increasing their ability to dynamically manage the information they need for faster and better work process and decision-making.  New support for transformational change. New capabilities introduce new levels of agility and

Page 35 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary velocity by expanding the power of the Accolade software to map to both enterprise process change and operational changes.  Advancements in security making it easier and safer to embed intellectual property-intensive activity with suppliers and partners within the same enterprise system, without compromise. Additionally, Accolade’s security has been further expanded to assign the most qualified knowledge workers to initiatives without risking compliance with data restrictions or regulations based on role or location. Accolade 11.0 is available immediately for upgrade, purchase and implementation. All Sopheon Accolade customers who are current on Maintenance and Support program fees are entitled to receive updates to their currently licensed products for this and future release upgrades at no additional cost. Click here to return to Contents

Vero Radan 2017 Includes Strong Updates and New Features 3 November 2016 The 2017 release of Radan, paves the way for exciting developments in the software’s history. Product Manager Olaf Körner says: “We are on the verge of reorganising how manufacturers will be using Radan in future, and important updates to Radmanager in the new edition are the first steps towards this.” Developers are working on separating Radan into two distinct aspects; first, traditionally creating NC code to drive CNC machines, and second, what they call “engineering of parts.” Radmanager’s strength is that it creates nests without the user necessarily needing to know where the parts come from, what the order numbers are, or which customer they are for. “But to achieve this, it relies on the parts being completely ready for nesting,” says Olaf Körner. “And that means more than just having flat parts with the right geometry. We need to know as much as possible about the parts – whether they can be cut on any machine tool, and the cycle times for all of those solutions. For example, it may be feasible to cut a part on either a laser or water jet, but while it would take only minutes on the laser, it may take two hours on the water jet. “In Radan 2017, Radmanager’s ability to manage both 2D and 3D engineering of parts is the precursor to the entirely new forthcoming engineering system for any type of parts, including 5-axis laser-cut sheet metal, tubes, flat, and bent.” The forthcoming Radquote, which is now available as a preview will be demonstrated at exhibitions and pilot customer sites ahead of its official launch. Radquote will also rely on engineered parts. “This 3D engineering of parts is becoming increasingly important. It will enable manufacturers to break assemblies down from CAD systems, into their constituent components, and fully understand everything about them.” 2D CAD files can also be imported automatically into Radmanager now, without the need to convert them. CAD/CAM Updates: Radan 2017 addresses danger of scrap flying off, sliding under the sheet, or damaging the tools on punching machines, by flagging up where floating scrap will occur.

Page 36 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary The Automatic Order Style Editor now shows graphically what the program is going to do, enabling users to home in on a particular operation to make changes. This is seen as a major improvement on the previous text-based system. Still with punch presses, Radan 2017 configures machine tools with all available cutting tools, so that new customers have commonly used tools immediately available. 3D: A side panel was introduced in a previous version of Radan which aids navigation around complex assemblies, but there was still a need to travel between the two. A new facility in Radan 2017 allows the user to stay with the model, and to immediately switch between front view, side view, top view etc. The graphics drawing has been speeded up. As an example, Olaf Körner explains that in earlier releases, deleting all screws in an assembly may take a while after they were selected, but now he says the software will always deliver a quick and consistent frame rate. The 3D function also supports modern graphics cards more efficiently, improving performance on tablets. The process of updating information between Radbend and Radan 3D has now been automated. “A design is analysed in Radbend, and then the bend information it provides fed back into the 3D model. This used to be a process that the user performed in a number of steps. Now, once the part has been identified, it’s a simple mouse click to update the information.” Nesting: Improved algorithms have led to an important enhancement of Radan’s powerful nesting capabilities. “Continuous effort is applied to further strengthen the nesting engine to achieve a better fit, and therefore, a potentially better material yield.” With an increasing number of users adopting project nesting, a new reporting engine ensures users can easily customise the content and design of their reports. It is also easier now to create nest projects, thanks to the new template function. Olaf Körner says: “Existing project settings can be stored with a given name, and recalled at any time. “Even creating nest projects for the same machine tool sometimes required repetitive work, but now everything the user needs will be there, saving quite a number of steps.” Profiling: Autotooling routines are now more efficient in placing tags, or microjoints, for common cutting. And the foil cutting function has been extended to scrap, ensuring that where sheets are covered with a protective foil for laser cutting, clean cuts can be made for scrap, too. Radbend: Radbend now highlights where holes are at risk of deforming by being close to bends. Also, the operator can switch between Design and Result Values. “This is particularly valuable where Radbend shows the end result of a radius, for example, may be different from how it’s designed. Selecting which values gives the user more control over the finished bend, depending on whether it’s vital that they stay with the design values, or if the end result values are acceptable.” For the first time, the user can now check with different maximum allowed force for the pre-bend and the hemming operation done with same tools.

Page 37 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Improved communication between 3D and 2D parts ensures that Radbend can now link to the 2D flatblanks created by Radan 3D. It also means that with more information going to the flatblank, 2D bends can easily be seen – the tooling and sequence number, as well as the radius, angle and setback. Also, Radbend now supports the new user interface, Touchpoint TruBend, which combines the advantages of multi-touch technology with industrial control…as all Trumpf pressbrakes will move to this state-of-the-art controller. Radtube: While Radtube has traditionally been used for simply cutting tubes, it can also program any extruded shape for tube cutters, including I-beams, H-beams and C-beams, along with L-shaped profiles. “Because cutting a round or square tube is completely different from working with more complex beams and profiles, we’ve assisted the user with this by vastly improving automation and support.” Summing up Radan 2017, Olaf Körner says the items of new and enhanced functionality provide immediate improvements for sheet metal manufacturers, while underlining the intention to continue investing heavily in the software. “Developing Radan to engineer and fully analyse parts in this way is the biggest step forward we’ve ever taken. The future is very exciting, as the level of automation we’ll be able to achieve is phenomenal.” Click here to return to Contents

WorkNC Presents 2017 R1 at the MIDEST Trade Fair 8 November 2016 Vero Software will exhibit the new WorkNC 2017 R1 version at the Midest Trade Fair in Paris from the 6th to 9th of December on stand 6-M031. Miguel Johann, WorkNC Brand Manager, is certain that visitors will be surprised by the new features figuring in this latest version of WorkNC which is aimed at improving productivity for its CAM users. “WorkNC 2017 R1 is the first version under the new six-month cycle release plan. This allows us to deliver the latest features to our customers much faster, keeping them on the vanguard of technology." Amongst the range of innovative functions which appear in WorkNC 2017 R1 is the new Parallel Finishing toolpath based on the new "Advanced Toolform" technology from Vero Software. The new Parallel Finishing toolpath calculations take into account the real physical geometry of the cutting tool, whether it is a high-feed tool, a standard tool or whatever form of convex tool. Miguel Johann says: “While version 2016 brought us the revolutionary Waveform Pattern for incredible Roughing performances, version 2017 R1 introduces, for Finishing, the paradigm-shifting ‘Advanced Toolform.’ We invite customers and prospects to break away from the limitations of standard tool shapes and explore the world of High Feed Cutter shapes." A myriad of other innovative features allowing important time savings in terms of programming are available in WorkNC 2017R1, for example, "3D Tool Compensation" for 3 axis and 3+2 axis machining. Among other highly anticipated improvements by established users of WorkNC is the Dynamic Calculation Queueing function which offers important time savings. Operators can now launch the

Page 38 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary creation of several toolpaths one after the other, run postprocessors or check for eventual tool holder collisions without having to wait until the end of calculations in progress. Also featured is the new WorkNC Launcher, which integrates a customizable zone to which you can drag and drop your favorite applications or folders; the new Tool Library, fully compatible with other libraries available on the market and in which different speeds and rates can be associated to a tool according to the material to be machined. WorkNC Version 2017R1, VISI 2017R1, Edgecam 2017R1 and PartXplore 2017R1 will be exhibited on the Vero Software Stand 6-M031. Click here to return to Contents

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